Quotes About Compassion

daß niemand das Recht hat, Unrecht zu tun, auch der nicht, der Unrecht erlitten hat.

Ceux qui ont vécu dans les camps se souviennent de ces prisonniers qui allaient, de baraque en baraque, consoler leurs semblables, leur offrant les derniers morceaux de pain qui leur restaient. Même s'il s'agit de cas rares, ceux-ci nous apportent la preuve qu'on peut tout enlever à un homme excepté une chose, la dernière des libertés humaines : celle de décider de sa conduite, quelles que soient les circonstances dans lesquelles il se trouve.

The grasping of another person in his uniqueness means loving him[.]

Each of us has his own inner concentration camp... We must deal with, with forgiveness and patience-as full human beings, as we are and what we will become.

Only slowly could these men be guided back to the commonplace truth that no one has the right to do wrong, not even if wrong has been done to them. We had to strive to lead them back to this truth.

Si, como hombre adulto, debió usted sufrir el infierno del campo de concentración, o, como dice la Biblia, apurar hasta las heces el cáliz del dolor, y fue capaz de superar todo esto sin odio y con amor a la humanidad, es usted una prueba viva de Dios.

Los que estuvimos en campos de concentración recordamos a los hombres que iban de barracón en barracón consolando a los demás, dándoles el último trozo de pan que les quedaba. Puede que fueran pocos en número, pero ofrecían pruebas suficientes de que al hombre se le puede arrebatar todo salvo una cosa: la última de las libertades humanas -la elección de la actitud personal ante un conjunto de circunstancias- para decidir su propio camino.

El hombre tiene capacidad, fuerza, vocación para superarse a sí mismo, olvidarse de sí, perderse de vista, cuando se entrega a una tarea o a un semejante. Esto es lo que yo entiendo por autotrascendencia.

Sreo sam na ulici vrlo siromašnog, zaljubljenog mladi?a. Šešir mu star, kaput otrcan, ogrta? progledao na laktovima, cipele mu vodu propuštale – ali duša mu bijaše posuta zvijezdama.

Those who are hated are always more human than those who hate them.

Love conquers all things; let us too surrender to love.

No stranger to misfortune myself, I have learned to relieve the sufferings of others.

Non ignora mali, miseris succurrere disco.

Through pain I've learned To comfort suffering men.

Being myself no stranger to grief, I am learning to help the unhappy

if so great be thy yearning to know of our sorrows

In fact, for all of us it is this open-hearted affirmation that my life is the same as yours that moves us forward much faster than when we believe that others' lives are orderly and peaceful and only ours is chaotic and full of bumps.

You and I cannot possibly know the hidden pain eating holes in individual lives, so if we want to be saviors, in partnership with the Lord, we will be kind to everyone, everywhere, all of the time.

Nevertheless, the fact remained, it was impossible to dislike any one if one looked at them.

She thought there were no Gods; no one was to blame; and so she evolved this atheist's religion of doing good for the sake of goodness.

On the outskirts of every agony sits some observant fellow who points.

But nevertheless, the fact remained, it was almost impossible to dislike anyone if one looked at them.

As we are a doomed race, chained to a sinking ship, as the whole thing is a bad joke, let us, at any rate, do our part; mitigate the suffering of our fellow-prisoners; decorate the dungeon with flowers and air-cushions; be as decent as we possibly can.

One must love everything.